• BLOGSAVVY – professional blog consultant: Tips & tricks for using poidcasts in your business
  Some of my takes on how you can most effectively use podcasts in a business context.

OK, here’s the plan.

We’re moving next week (first home, v. happy, lots of renovations await!) and I’m getting annoyed at spending $40 p/month on line rental for a phone line that we only ever rack up $20 of calls on. Plus, the $129 charged by my DSL company to shift connections (and the month or so wait on dial-up) makes me think there’s an opportunity here…

If I ditch the line rental, hook up with Optus for cable and get a Skype phone then that’ll handle all the international / long distance stuff and I can use SkypeOut for local calls no worries.

We’ve got mobiles (of course) but the only problem is that SkypeIn (which would give me my own landline number) isn’t available in Australia yet :o(

So whaddya reckon? Should we take the plunge & SkypeUp and wait for SkypeIn or hang out and wait for a bit longer?

And do you reckon this phone would be the best bet?

Update: Hmmmm, looks like the phone isn’t advertsied as being available in Australia. Bugger. Any suggestions?

Update 2: Yes it is, excellent, I’ve just bought one!

• cameron reilly: Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
  Cameron makes me want to do unthinkable things. Having met up last week at the Melbourne Bloggers thingy all I can say is that I’m v. impressed by everything that him & Mick are doing and y’know… given half the chance…

• Announcing the EdTech Posse Podcast
  This looks like it should be a regular on any edtechers pod. Way to go guys!
• Transpose Email Plugin
  Very funky WordPress plugin that allows you to put in mailto: commands using javascript and thus spam protected. Will definitely be using this.

Elgg needs a logo and I know just the man for the job.

Hear ye hear ye!

The new home of Aaron Campbell is http://e-poche.net/.

So go there to enjoy his succulents, or even better just grab his feed.

• soulsoup » Learning Actually
  Anol is back :O) Together with a good post that involveddonkeys, cliffs and the fact that adding an ‘e’ doesn’t really change anything. It’s great to see elearnig viewed from a non-liner perspective!
• Dark Blogs Case Study 01 – A European Pharmaceutical Group: Corante > Strange Attractor >
  Excellent and very interesting case study of business blogging. Also CC pdf. Great stuff!

Would you like to add (gr)avatars to your posts or to consider whether it would be worthwhile? I’ve posted a run-down / consideration of the benefits / negatives and ways of doing it over at Blogsavvy.

In a very timely fashion the guys at Elgg, along with the remarkable Mr Lamb, have just announced that “communities on Elgg.net all now have attached wikis.”

It’s only available at elgg.net at the moment but they’ll help you dig it into your elgg install and I’m sure it’ll come as standard before too long.

Good work fellas!

Update: Jeremy Smith writes that Blogs@Case have now been joined by Wiki@Case… and they most certainly have through a Mediawiki install seems like there’s a bit of a thing going on at the moment.

Absolutely excellent, want to know the difference between writing and typing… go here :o)

“Typing is not writing in the same way that a cocktail shaker is not a jug of margaritas….

None of it, not one keystroke, constitutes writing.

So what, smart arse, is writing?

I could waste a great deal of your time here twatting on about the imaginative leap, the technical development of characters and narrative arcs, the weaving of life experiences, philosophical questions, observations and pure fantasy into a resonant, truthful experience for a reader – an act, if you will, of carefully-crafted telepathy – but I don’t need to, because instead I’m going to say that it is building a cat-house…” [matlarkin.com]